Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Ike SCHOOL commissioners. accom-
panied by the State Treasurer, returned
from st, Louis recently with the proceeds
of $4,000 IN Government bonds. They
sold at premium of twenty-five per cent,
netting $4,000. The bonds would have run
twenty years at four per cent The ready
money in the school fund running short,
the purchase of district school bonds has
almost ceased, but will now be resumed,
and in less than six months the money
received will be reinvested in the school
districts at five per cent, which will
make the interest for twenty years 3d.
200 instead of Sll2, 600, that would have
been received from the General Govern
ment. The increase of the interests there
fore 1000 which, when added 10 the S35.-
OOOincrease of principal, will, by this trans
action, be gain TO the school fund of $685.
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The twenty-eighth session of the Grand
Lodge of Kansas, Independent Order of
Good Templars, recently IN session at To-
peka, elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Grand Chief Templar, James
Grimes, of Parsons; Grand Counselor, Z.
B. Crew. of Delphos; Grand Vice-Templar,
Mrs. Hila B. Mcbride, OF Washington;
Grand Secretary, Miss Ada II. Peck, of
Topeka; Grand Treasurer, A. ]. Georgia,
of Pittsburgh; Grand Superintendent of
Juvenile Temples, Mrs. Nettie Lowenstein,
of Eureka; Grand Chaplain, Rev. A A.
Hoffman, of Downs: Grand Marshal, j. d.
Graves, of Garden City.
ALBERT NORMAN was recently killed at
Atchson by the falling of derrick.
A LATE fire at Emporia destroyed the
Merchants Hotel, Griffith & Ewing's ware
house and a livery stable owned by john
r. McKensey. All on Fourth avenue, be-
tween Commercial and Merchants streets,
were totally consumed, laying almost the
entire north side of the block in ashes.
Loss about $4,000, with an insurance of
about IS, 600
JAMES SMALL recently jumped from a
passenger train at Argentine before it
slowed up, when he fell unaer the cars and
was fatally injured.
VETERANS of Western Kansas recently
held q pleasant reunion at Ellsworth.
CONSIDERABLE OF u sensation was created
at Topeka the other night by the announce
ment that Frank jackson, a we'll known
stockman. of the famous Maple Hill live
stock farm, had made hasty assignment
and skipped out for Canada or some other
place. His liabilities are placed at S75, 000.
His father is the heaviest loser.
THE mayor of Topeka has issued procla-
maIion directing the strict enforcement of
the Sunday law, which prohibits the sale
of all goods, wares and merchandise on
Sunday.
A PETITION numerously signed has been
presented to the county commissioners OF
Shawnee County requesting the establish
ment of county high school The board
decided to submit the question to the voters
On November
WILLIAM MCKENZIE, stranger, with
ticket for Los Angeles, Cal, attempted &c
board Il train on the Missouri Pacific at
Wyandotte the other evening, when he fell
under the wheels and was almost instantly
killed. His name appeared on several
scraps Of paper, but there was nothing on
his person to indicate his residence. He
was about twenty eight years old
IN April last the powder magazine OF
Hazeltine q Undertake, at Columbus, was
blown up by unknown parties and a large
amount of powder went up in one blast
All attempts to ferret out the guilty parties
failed, and some weeks since detectives
from Kansas City were employed and the
evidence collected led TO the recent arrest OF
Fred Caspry and j ohm Hulett, coal miners,
aged twenty-one and twenty-three respect
lively, on charge of committing the deed.
PENSIONS lately granted to Kansans:
James NJ. Shippe, Hayes City; George
Perry, Little River; James e. Vinson-
haller, Custer; Charles E. Reid, Garrett;
John :. Metzger, Minneapolis. Increase
Charles l.. Linton, Junction City; Randolph
Cramer, Haddam; Daniel Foltz. Burlin.
game; Josiah Gavin, Englewood; Stephen
Birdsall, Bristow; James Buckmaster
Brookville; Uriah Mcdonald, W Wellington:
John Goodnight Lane: Andrew j. Foole
Chase: Albert Conner, Wichita.
JOHN q. BURROUGHS, of Topeka, aged
seventy-five years, recently went to Kan
sas City and wrote back TO ms friends that
his body would be found in the Missouri:
river. He had not been further heard
from and the mystery renamed unsolved,
although relatives went to Kansas City &c
investigate.
AT the late session of the Grand Lodge
l. o. G. T. at Topeka among the resolutions
adopted was this: THAT we are not in any
sense political body, but we stand shoul.
der to shoulder with all men of every polit-
zeal party who viii aid in the suppression
of the rum traffic.
KINsLEY is to have shoe factory which
will employ one hundred men. The pro.
prietors will be Massachusetts men, who
are now engaged in that business.
AT the recent meeting of the Arkansas
Valley Editorial Association. held at Hutch
inson, some fifteen new members were
voted for and admitted into the association.
The following are the officers elected for
the ensuing year: President, r. N. Eas-
ley, of the Hutchinson Ne,oS; vice president,
Cash Taylor, of the Sedgwick PantGgraph;
secretary, F. r. Daugherty. OF the Newton
Republican; treasurer, w. f. Bolton, of the
Greenburg Signal
CAPTAIN ]. W. SMITH. warden of the
penitentiary, has been elected treasurer of
he Kansas commandery Military Order
Loyal Legion, vice Captain l.. Z. Campbell,
resigned.
WHILE the University students were
recently engaged in a mock session of the
Lime Kiln Club at Lawrence, {. R Nc
Camish and another student became in
volved in friendly scuff1e and finally bott
fell to the floor, Mechanism falling upper
most. but in some way in the fall his head
and shoulder struck the body of his com
panion in such manner as to wrench the
spinal cord, causing paralysis of the entire
body and causing his death in few hours.
The young mans parents live at White
Church, WyandOtte County.
THE annual report of the Grand Score
tary l. o. o. F. OF Kansas showed the mum